- The
Rheinwiesenlager (German: [ˈʁaɪnˌviːzn̩ˌlaːɡɐ],
Rhine meadow camps) were a
group of 19
concentration camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany...
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soldiers from the Ruhr pocket, and some civilians, were
imprisoned in the
Rheinwiesenlager (in English, "Rhine
meadow camp") near Remagen, a
temporary prison...
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soldiers were kept in open
fields in
makeshift camps in the
Rhine valley (
Rheinwiesenlager).
Controversy has
arisen about how
Eisenhower managed these prisoners...
- "Geiersberg" ("Vulture's hill").
After World War II it was the site of two
Rheinwiesenlager temporary prison camps. As with most
German cities,
towns and villages...
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order to
conform with the
logistics of the
Geneva Convention. The
Rheinwiesenlager camps are
listed from
north to south. Most of them were
located near...
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surrendered on the
Eastern Front. In
early April, the
first Allied-governed
Rheinwiesenlager camps were
established in
western Germany to hold
hundreds of thousands...
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those who died had fled the
Eastern front and most
likely ended up in
Rheinwiesenlager prisoner transit camps run by the
United States and
French forces where...
- of the many
enclosures on the west bank of the Rhine—the so-called
Rheinwiesenlager—close to Remagen. The
camps were used by the
Allies to
house captured...
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After the end of the
Second World War, the
American Army
established a
Rheinwiesenlager (Prisoner camp) in
Hechtsheim in May 1945. This was one of 23 camps...
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between Güdderath,
Hochneukirch and Wickrathberg, one of the so-called "
Rheinwiesenlager". It held
between 120,000 and 150,000
German prisoners of war from...
